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Article: "It is a privilege beyond words": Canadian heads international church society
- Article from:
- Anglican Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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CopyrightCopyright Anglican Church of Canada Jan 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Canon M. Philip Poole of Trinity church, Aurora, Ont., was recently elected president of the international Compass Rose Society, the first Canadian Anglican to sit in that post.
The society, which was established to provide financial support for the work of the worldwide Anglican Communion, was inspired by a 1994 visit that then-Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey made to the war-ravaged province of the Sudan. "It was a risky visit, and what he saw there both appalled and saddened him," said Canon Poole. "He felt that the rest of the communion needed to hear the story of the Sudan church and at the same time, to find ways to help."
(Based in England, the Anglican ...